A re-purposed envelope with my name on it (in real, blue-ink handwriting) arrived on my desk over the lunch hour and in it a saving grace, maybe.
Recently retired Coker College geology professor Fred Edinger sent me a to-do list worth keeping and worth completing. Actually, there were three lists in the envelope -- all of them wonderful -- but I intend to complete the smallest list first. He sent me a copy of the two-sided handout he distributed at his Last Lecture, which he titled "Outside of a Dog" and delivered to the public on April 11, 2012. His talk profiled ten books he especially likes. Each, he says, taught him something he valued.
With most of the summer ahead of me, I'm ready to start reading, and I hope others will join me.
Don Quijote, by Miguel de Cervantes (Raffel translation)
The Autobiography of Malcolm X, by Alex Haley
Coming of Age in the Milky Way, by Timothy Ferris
Wolf Willow, by Wallace Stegner
Albion's Seed, by David Hackett Fischer
The Testament, by John Grisham
Things Fall Apart, by Chinua Achebe
The Lord of the Rings, by J.R.R. Tolkien
Moby Dick, by Herman Melville
Ishmael, by Daniel Quinn
The other lists, by the way, in case anyone wants me to send them along, were summer reading lists compiled from suggestions of Coker's faculty and staff by Melinda Deyasi in 2004 and by Fred Edinger last fall.
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